Is Your Home a Reflection of Your Personality?

It is said that a person’s home is an extension of who he is, so it stands to reason that you can learn much about a person’s personality from the way his house is designed.

This article will give you the basic tips to starting a great conversation with the host the next time you’re invited (or dragged) to a house warming party or baby shower. Instead of standing in the corner typing away on your phone, look out for these signs.

Lots of storage and clean lines

If you the home is well kept with ample storage spaces, and even possibly multi-function furniture that doubles up as a hidden storage, you know you have a very organized person on your hands and he or she will enjoy conversations that are factual and systematic.

Multi-Functional Furniture

Extendable dining table, transformable coffee table, or a rotating TV wall even. Everything in this home has multiple uses. These folks favour function over form and are more interested in usage rather than the look. Forgo the small talk and dive deep into something substantial.

Photographs

You walk into a room and it looks like Facebook – photos line the walls, maybe an inspirational poster of two, and the desk has an old photo of when the homeowner was half her size. These folks value memories and relationships. Ask them about their lives. Feel free to bring up topics that were a hit a decade ago. The nostalgia never gets old.

Funky Designs

A patched-work refurbished sofa in a corner and an enlarged reprint of the 1939 comic cover of Batman’s first appearance encased in a customized frame hanging on the opposite wall. This type of homeowner values his or her personal identity and enjoys a conversation involving creative ideas or conspiracy theories. The best way to get into a conversation with such a homeowner is to ask about a story surrounding an interesting piece that stands out. There’s probably a story behind it that would make for great conversation.

High Tech Home

You can feel the ground vibrating with the latest 15.1 audio surround sound system before you even step into the house. The state of the art curved screen television is probably connected to a DIY super computer that has the capability of running octo-quad processors. There’s only two of such system in the world – One is owned by the CIA and you’re looking at the other. It should be clear by now that the homeowner is interested in the latest toys. A good topic would be to ask the homeowner for his opinion on two competitive tech trends and be marveled by the geekery!

Which type of homeowner are you? Let me know in the comment below. If you have been contemplating about giving your home a makeover, come talk to us. We would love to help you design a home that yells out “This is who I am; this is my home!”

Coming up in this series of Personality Based Design, we will be looking at the various character archetypes and the designs that suit them.

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